I argue that the most glaring shortcoming of the in vitro scheme is that it overlooks speciesist attitudes and institutions as problematic in of themselves.
Continue readingWhy are Environmentalists and Animal Activists at an Empasse?
More and more, however, the science of climate change is now demonstrating that animal products are a leading cause of environmental degradation, a body of evidence that is becoming difficult to ignore. However, the ideological shift that is needed–seeing animals not as objectified climate-destroying consumables, but as a marginalized group whose oppression is actually foundational to the degradation of the earth–still lacks. Until we start to see animals as persons and reject hierarchies of domination, the two movements will never fully align.
Continue readingBritain’s Rental Pet Policy and What It Means for Nonhuman Animals
Explorers Race to the Poles, Animals Lose
The exploitation of Nonhuman Animals was central to the polar explorations. Nonhuman Animals often comprised their clothing. Countless Nonhuman Animals were killed and rendered, potted, and otherwise preserved for the supplies picked up in nearby ports or donated by advertisers sponsoring the expeditions.
Continue readingSolving Moral Conflicts in a Non-Vegan World
Peter Singer and the Charity of Western Imperialism
What is Post-Speciesism?
[caption id="attachment_417" align="alignnone" width="568"] Photo from Atlantic Hogs, a "free range" institution in Ireland[/caption] Speciesism is institutional discrimination and, to a lesser extent, individual prejudice against Nonhuman Animals based on their species. Speciesism isContinue reading
Review in Between the Species
My review of David Nibert's Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict (Columbia University Press) has been published in Between the Species 18 (1): 112-115.